Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography

by Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald

Overview

Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hunters, and medicine men who knew the freedom and sacred ways of pre-reservation life. As the principal figure in the Crow-Shoshone Sun Dance religion, Yellowtail has preserved traditional values in the face of the constantly encroaching, diametrically opposed values of materialistic modern socity. Through his life story and description of the Sun Dance religion we can reexamine the premises and orientations of both cultures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806126029
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	03/15/1994
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Michael O. Fitzgerald is an attorney in Bloomington, Indiana. He has been an adopted member of the Yellowtail family and the Crow Tribe since 1972 and spent extended periods of time with Thomas and Susie Yellowtail at their home in Montana. He has taught religious traditions of North American Indians in Indiana University's Continuing Education Department.